behind the hunt -- stubbing new details emerge about the man hunt for osama bin laden. inside the top secret operation. captioning funded by cbs >> good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us. i'm betty nguyen. we got him. those are president obama's words when it became clear that the navy s.e.a.l.s had killed osama bin laden. the special issue of "time" magazine features a red x over

osama's face. only adolf hitler and iraqi leadlead leader zawahiri received similar couples. we're learning more about the pakistan. the compound shows the bloody aftermath. it was the phone call made last year by a courier that led the u.s. to the compound. bin laden was killed in the final minutes of the raid, shot once in the head, one in the chest. joel brown has the latest on this one. good morning, joel. >> good morning to you. intelligence officials chased clues for years before they were able to close in on bin laden. the biggest victory yet here in washington that's got both sides of the aisle cheering. >> reporter: members of congress treated president obama to a rare standing ovation, just a

day after american forces took do down osama bin laden. >> i want to again recognize the heroes that carried out this incredibly dangerous mission. >> reporter: today, cia director leon panetta will brief on the mission, but details are emerging. a lone courier led the forces to this compound in pakistan. >> this compound is different than anything we've seen before. >> the officials tracked the cell phone but he didn't make it easy, turning it off and removing the battery every time he was near the complex. two helicopters loaded with navy s.e.a.l.s swooped in and after a brief fire fight, the world's most wanted man was dead. at the white house, anxious president obama and the national security team watched the mission play out in realtime. the military buried the al qaeda leader at sea. pentagon officials say the videotape of the event will released soon that the body was

not bin laden. >> pressure to prove that bin hassen was killed, especially now that there was no body. a significant amount of data at bin laden's compound. officials are digging through the documents searching for new leads about future attacks or any high-ranking members of al qaeda. so bin laden's death offered closure for 9/11 victims' families. tomorrow, the president travels to ground zero in new york to meet with those who lost loved ones that day. betty? >> it wasn't the only military option, correction? >> there were options, betty, less risky ones, in fact, like flying a bombing raid over the compound. the president rejected that plan. he wanted proof that bin laden was no longer a threat. >> thank you, joel. pakistan's president acknowledges that security forces were less in the dark about the u.s. raid and had little to say about why bin

laden was able to live among the elite. in an opinion piece, president abi adari wrote he was not anywhere we had anticipated he would be, but now he is gone. he said pakistan pays an enormous price for its stand against terrorism. many u.s. lawmakers want to know how bin laden could have lived undetected hiding in plain sight 35 miles from pakistan's capital. many are reviewing the millions of dollars of aid pakistan received from the u.s. >> it's conceivable that bin laden did not have a support system in the country that allowed him to stay there for an extended period of time. >> abbottabad, pakistan elizabeth palmer joins us by phone. elizabeth, what's the local reaction to bin laden's death? >> here in abbottabad where he was killed, people are still

shaking their heads in disbelief. it's a small town. it's sort of a country town, really. people can't believe the most wanted man in the world was living in their midst. elsewhere in southern pakistan, there has been a demonstration by an islamist party. it's quite a radical islamic party. there they've staged pro-bin laden demonstrations. pakistan is filled with sympathizers. and the government is braced for more demonstrations of this kind. >> what are you hearing from pakistani officials in response to this u.s. mission? >> well, they are being a little shy of overtly commenting except to say this was a u.s. operation. according to u.s. policy, we are committed to stamping out

terrorism. but they're clearly very embarrassed by the fact that bin laden was living in a town that is a garrison town that has 120,000 either active duty or retired military personnel in it. it's mind boggling and it -- it makes it appear as if either they were in conclusion with osama bin laden or they were guilty of extraordinary incompetence. >> that's my next question. it appears that bin laden was hiding in plain sight in the words of one u.s. official. how does pakistan go as far as explaining that. >> i have been down to the house this morning. when it was built, it must have been green fields outside of the town. it's growing up around it. but the roads that lead to the house are narrow rugged dirt lanes. and it is a quiet little area. you know, there's cattle grazing in the fields around.

so i think it's conceivable that he was sneaked in by a very well organized support group. it's conceivable. now, what we don't know is whether or not there was any institutional -- that is pakistani security agency support for him as well that may come out in the days to come. at the moment, the american government and the pakistani government and now the afghan government want to appear as if they're all in solidarity about the fact that this was simply a thing -- >> elizabeth palmer joining us by phone in abbottabad. thank you for joining us, elizabeth. in the wake of obama's death, the government has issued security warnings. leon panetta says al qaeda will most certainly want to avenge his death. >> reporter: it was trumpeted on the most wanted list of terroristst with a single word

on a red banner, "deceased." but his death does not end the terror threat. heavily armed police bolstered patrols at airports in los angeles to boston. train stations in san fran, and around the u.s. capital in washington. >> sympathizers of bin laden and al qaeda in general will be looking to take action to avenge bin laden's death. >> there's no credible evidence pointing to an attack, radical websites are vowing revenge. and to an internal message to the cia, leon panetta issued a warning. bin laden is dead, al qaeda is not. the greatest threat may come from american-born cleric and his terror-based network al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. they've tried twice to hit the u.s. first with the veiled christmas day 2009 underwear bomb plot.

and again last fall with explosives hidden in printers. and there's increased worry about lone wolves, individuals like nadal hassan in ft. hood who were moved by al qaeda's message to strike out in the name of bin laden and his terror networks. >> it may be a mortally wounded tiger that has life in it. it's dangerous. we cannot keep up the pressure. we cannot relent. >> the u.s. has not raised the terror threat level. but the military bases are on alert. the fbi has pressed all field offices to press for any and all evidence to look for new plots. sony gets hacked again. plus, the desperate search for boy scouts stranded by raging flood waters in arkansas. this is "cbs morning news." ♪ ♪ -wee! -woo hoo.

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honda expands the recall, and gas prices end closer to $4 a gallon. ashley morrison with more on that. good morning, ashlee. good morning to you, betty. the asian markets are up this morning. tokyo's nikkei jumped 1.5%. while hong kong's hang seng went up a notch and oil dipped slightly to just over $113 a barrel. today, wall street gets it latest on manufacturing and the april auto sales numbers. on monday, stocks fell after an early rally ran out of steam. the dow is at three points while the nasdaq lost nine. sony cyberattack problems are expanding. the company said monday that the sony entertainment center, an online gaming center for pc users has been hit by hackers. sony shut down the site when they discovered the attack. hackers got the names, birth dates, and addresses of nearly 25 million users, but not any credit card information. the company's playstation network was hit earlier this month putting the customer

information of 77 million users at risk. sony hopes to get at least part of that network back on-line this week. if you're not already paying $4 a gallon, you probably will be soon. the price has jumped another 8 1/2 cents in the past week to $3.96 up more than a dollar from the same time last year. many drivers are paying well above $4. analysts expect prices to peak just in time for the summer driving season. and a rare victory for banking customers. on monday, j p morgan announced it would end the trial run of ending fees. the fees for noncustomers in two states, illinois and texas. but the $4 and $5 fees created too much of a ruckus. and chase is returning to the $3 fee it used to charge. so, betty, we'll show them. >> all right, yeah. good luck with that, ashley. thank you for joining us live here in new york.

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on the "cbs morning news," here's a look at today 's the weather. soaking rains are likely from arkansas to ohio to upstate new york. the mid atlantic states could see some strong gusts and heavy downpours and it will be sunny throughout the plains states. one man in pakistan became an internet sensation during monday's raid that killed osama bin laden. he didn't realize it at first, but his tweets described the u.s. attacks while it was happening. >> sohaib athar was taking a break from his daily grind as an i.t. consultant when he noticed the reaction in abbottabad. any tech savvy person would do, he began tweeting.

helicopter hovering above abbottabad at 1:00 a.m. a rare event. his internet name has become a sensation. what he did not know he was live tweeting the raid in which terrorist osama bin laden was killed on sunday. >> the power of the twitter network is the immediacy of it. it's the fact that people want to share as soon as something interesting happens, it's retransmitted among friends. >> twitter and other social media outlets is where news is increasingly breaking and the people sharing the information may surprise you. >> twitter people put up this people that many people are saying is the first indication that we have killed bin laden. >> according to an on-line c-net poll, half of the respondents, a whopping 47%, received the news of osama bin laden's death on-line, in twitter, facebook, or an online news website. the other half through traditional sources like television, radio, and word of mouth. >> you don't go to twitter to find the full truth on any particular topic.

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>> i liked it. only a few breaks in the clouds. today we'll see more sunshine. it will be even warmer. here is a look at your day planner for today. the highs for today, look at these numbers. 83 for d.c. manassas, 86. luray, you'll be warming up to 82 degrees. cumberland, 79. here is a look at your next three days. the thing is things do change especially tonight and overnight into wednesday morning. we do see the possibility of some showers, thunderstorms will be likely. sun could be strong, maybe even severe along i-81 and west of 81. i think around the district, we'll get more the showers and stuff this evening. here is a look at your traffic. >> thank you so much, anny. look around the area right now,

this construction really on the northbound side of i-270, northbound at route 109, construction is in the left lane. southbound at route 124 in the right lane. we'll go over the maps on the rock creek parkway, watch out for the construction. both directions at cathedral avenue taking up one lane. back over the beltway at braddock road, they're taking lanes as needed. stay to the left to get by. another look around the area at 4:31. andrea, mike? >> here are stories we're following for you. president obama plans to visit ground zero in new york city thursday to mark the death of osama bin laden. he'll also meet with the families of those killed in the attacks in the world trade center on september 11th. >> u.s. forces killed bin laden during a raid on a compound in pakistan sunday ending nearly a decade-long manhunt. law official across the country are on alert following the killing of osama bin laden. the fbi and the department of homeland security issued a joint bulletin monday warning

that his death will likely inspire homegrown extremists to eventually attempt attacks inside the united states. officials say as of now though, there are no credible intelligence reports pointing to an eminent attack. good morning and welcome to 9news now. today is tuesday, may 3rd. i'm andrea roane. >> i'm mike hydeck. monika samtani right here. she'll be along with traffic in just a moment. anny hong has the weather first, she's in for howard. >> mild start to this morning. as you're heading outside, you may not even need the jacket i think. you may want to grab the umbrella because we do see some showers and thunderstorms coming in not really until late this afternoon and early evening. so, your morning commute should be fine. here is a look at your day planner. highs will be around 80 to 85 degrees. breezy at times. by 9:00, partly cloudy. 67 degrees at noon. take your lunch outside. sit on the patio.

around 74 degrees around lunchtime. right now, mostly cloudy and downtown and the current temperature is 65 degrees. it feels pretty nice outside. it is 61 in gaithersburg. 59 in frederick. manassas, 63. luray, good morning to you. 61 degrees right now. here is a look at some of the visibilities where we do have some areas of fog. it is not too bad. but hagerstown, your visibility is two and a half miles. martinsburg, four miles. cumberland, three miles. you can see around d.c., we're just fine but around leesburg down to three miles. you may encounter some fog as you're heading out this morning. here is a look at the satellite radar. we're going to get some of this action late this afternoon starting from the west of 81 and then it will impact the district by this evening. here is a look at the highs for today. before the storms come in, 83 downtown. it will be a nice, warm day.